Best Friends

Best Friends Synopsis

'A joy to read…… Perfectly pitched to be a word-of-mouth summer hit.' - The Times. 'A radiant novel…every bit as achingly romantic as Nicholas Sparks or JoJo Moyes.'- Sunday Independent. 'A charming new romance depicts a love story like no other.'- Sunday Herald.

'The writing is exceptional.' - Sunday Times. 'In Ray and June we have two deliciously deceptive, flawed and perversely personable characters with whom we want to spend time - Sunday Post. 'Normal People with pensioners…a tender miracle of a book.'- Andrea Gibb screenwriter of Miss Austen and Mayflies.

'Stylish, very funny, and moving - he's a true original.'- Kevin Barry. 'Sparkling with characters that are so easy to fall in love with. Andrew Meehan is a wonderful writer.'- Caroline O'Donoghue, author of The Rachel Incident.

'A beautiful, tender and insightful novel, full of heart with dazzling prose.'- Rachelle Atalla, author of The Salt Flats. Is it ever too late to find love? June cleans houses.

Ray is a janitor at the public tennis courts in Dun Laoghaire. He's not romantic material; she's not even friend material. When it comes to learning how to be with other people at the age of 70 plus, they are unlikely companions, even more unlikely friends.

Ray looks a bit like Willie Nelson, June looks a bit like Chrissie Hynde. They've never fitted in before and they don't fit in now. Yet, as understanding blossoms into friendship, June and Raymond begin to discover the joy that's been missing from their lives for so long.

The right person at the right time. June and Ray, this is your moment.